Nazca Lines from Cusco
TOUR DETAILS
PACKAGE DECRIPTION
On this tourist package, you will have the opportunity to visit the most important tourist sites in the southern region of Peru: NAZCA- ICA -HUACACHINA-PARACAS.
TOUR ACTIVITIES
HIGHLIGHTS (highlights of the tour)
Picking up our customers from your hotel in Cusco to transfer them to the bus station.
16:20 hs. Pick up from your hotel in Cusco by a representative private Car Emotion Tour Peru and transfer to the bus station CRUZ DEL SUR.
17:15 hs. Departure from Cusco to Nazca by Cruz del Sur, first floor Vip Service ..
*Night on the bus until you arrive to nazca next day early morning.
07:30 a.m. Arrive time to Nazca, reception service and transfer to Maria Reiche airport. Before to Flight, you will see an informative video of the Nazca Lines, after you will board the airplane to fly over the impressive Nazca lines for 35 minutes.
after some basic information about the Lines and safety instructions you will board the airplane.
During this flight you will see perfect representations of large animals, such as birds, including a condor, a hummingbird, a pelican, a parrot among others. As for the other species, you will see a big monkey, a spider, a whale, a lizard, and a famous design known as the astronaut.
Besides the designs you can also find hundreds of lines that run throughout the desert and large geometric shapes that resemble huge runways. Finally we will return to the airport.
On the way we will see the Inca ruins of Caxamarca, an Inca Ruin used in the past as a resting place. Today local people call this place Paredones, which was built long ago when the Incas expanded their empire on the Nazca Valley, here we will know more of this Inca Ruin and of history in this place.
Then you will visit a sector known as the needles, where it is possible to observe a huge trapezoid from the top of a little hill, here you will be able to be very close to a genuine Nazca trapezoid and will also get a good insight into the meaning of the Nazca Lines.
On this place we will visiting the enormous spirals holes and also the channels. Our guide will explain how the Nazca people built all these channels and also will take us for a stroll in the surrounding fields to see some crops produced by the native community.
After visiting this place we will go to the city center for you to have lunch or go straight to Huacachina (2 hours trip).
When you arrive to Huacachina, you will know this beautiful Oasis and at the indicated time we will begin the adrenaline tour in the desert with Buggy and sandboarding.
In this tour you will cross Ica’s desert in a 4×4 buggy vehicle, and will make various stops along the way for pictures.
The desert of Ica is the most beautiful in our country and, offers stunning landscapes, not only of sand dunes, but also of the Huacachina lagoon, from above.
Our driver will take you to the summit of some dunes, and from the very top you will be able to slide down. Before you start to sand surf, our guide/instructor will teach you specific techniques to ensure a safety ride. There are actually plenty spots to sandboard around Huacachina Oasis, with a wide variety of dunes, suitable for the very beginners, as well as for professional sand boarders. Keep in mind that on this tour you will not have to walk up the dunes to go for a second or a third ride, our driver will do all the lifting job for you, finally when you return, we will make a last stop at the top of a dune and we will have a beautiful view of the oasis.
Then you will return to Huacachina.
The whole tour will take about 1 hour and a half.
18:00 hs. Retorn of the tour.
18:30 hs. Transportation from Huacachina to Paracas in Private car.
Hotel Night in Paracas.
On this second day you will continue the itinerary. You will visit the Ballestas Islands the Paracas National Reserve and finish in Lima.
07:40 a.m. Pick up from the hotel in Paracas and transfer to the tourist pier.
Begin the tour from the port of Chaco Paracas where we will board a speedboat to share with other clients, then a fifteen minute tour of the Paracas Bay, arrive at Candelabra, here our guide will explain the different theories out there about this figure enigmatic, after fifteen minutes of travel around the Ballestas Islands where we will see rock formations and a variety of marine species, sea lions, Humboldt penguins, chuitas, guanays, pelicans, oystercatchers tendrils, thousands of sea birds, then arrive Maternity of wolves, then return to port.
10:00 a.m. Return of the tour and transfer to Hotel
During this trip we visit interpretation center of Reserve which have very interesting pictures and interactive videos and all the history as important data of this protected area.
We also do a route by peninsula of Paracas gazing the colorful desert redness, yellow, we will observe the rocky formations, made by two architects the wind and the waves, beaches like Yumake beach, Red beach, La Mina beach, in this beach you can enjoy and swim on this beautiful beach.
15:00 hs. Return to Paracas and transfer to the hotel.
15:00 hs. Pick from you hotel and transfer to the bus station.
16:10 hs. Departure from Paracas to Lima by Cruz del Sur, First Floor – Vip Service.
20:00 hs. Arrive time to Lima/ reception service and transfer to your hotel.
END OF SERVICES
PRICE: US$ 449 per person
✔ Transfer in Cusco from your hotel to bus terminal Cruz del sur.
✔ Bus tickets by Cruz del sur from Cusco to Nazca – First Floor – Vip Service.
✔ Pick up in Nazca of the bus station and transfer to the Airport Maria Reiche.
✔ Overflight Nazca Lines.
✔ Visit Acueductos of Cantalloc in private car.
✔ Private car from Nazca to Ica (Huacachina)
✔ Tour in the desert with bauggies and sandboarding.
✔ Private car from Ica (Huacachina) to Paracas.
✔ Ballestas Islands Tour and Candelabro.
✔ Tour Paracas National Reserve in private car.
✔ Guide.
✔ Tourist entrances fees according to the itinerary.
✔ Bus ticket from Paracas to Lima by Cruz del Sur – First Floor – Vip Service.
✔ Pick up in Lima of the bus station to hotel.
✔ Hotel in Paracas 3 STARS
DOES NOT INCLUDES
✘ Airport Taxes $ 10 per person.
✘ Meals
RECOMENDATIONS
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